Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Can someone find your location from a Facebook photo?

q: Local news stations are scaring people into thinking that bad guys can identify their location using EXIF information hidden inside their Facebook photos. Is that true?
a: No.  From our research this hasn't been true for years.  We did some tests ourselves to confirm. In the image (left) you can see the GPS details were recorded into the image by an iPhone 5. However, (right) you can see the GPS info has been cleared when the image was downloaded from Facebook.

You can check an image yourself using this website: http://regex.info/exif.cgi
When you upload an image from Facebook it has limited information.  However, if you upload a photo from your Phone...it does some amazing things.

Saturday, August 10, 2013

Free Reports from IIS Web Logs

q: We have a folder of www logs from IIS, what is a quick and free way to run some basic reports from those logs (eg: hits, referrers, user agents)?
a: We recommend Indihiang Web Log Analyzer. We could not be more pleased with its ability to parse through a folder of log files and generate usable graphs and tables.  NOTE: Don't try to open today's active log file while it's being written to on the server, always crashes the app (as it should).

Sunday, August 4, 2013

Low Disk Space on Recovery Partition

q: We deployed a number of new HP and Dell systems recently with a very small, very fully recovery partition.  The partition picked up a drive letter and now Windows 7 has to tell us about the Low Disk Space over and over. What can we do?
a: As this site recommends - there are two basic solutions. Tell Windows to stop caring about Low Disk or Remove the drive letter.  I've tried removing the drive letter, but it comes back on the reboot.  Then I tried Option Two from this site and deleted the single registry entry from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices as they describe and it worked perfectly.